I'm totally on Team Lord Hector! I also agree about that final climactic scene - in my head I saw it as a cinematic montage with crazy angles and swirling lights, which is so different from the tone of the rest of the book.

Sixteen-year-old Elisa is the younger of two princesses. She's bookish, uncomfortable in social situations, and turns to food in times of stress: in other words, she's nothing like her perfect older sister. She's also the carrier of the Godstone. Which means that she's destined to do something...